Staff meeting a week too late!

Today in my staff meeting at school a lot of time was spent discussing the social networking policy from the DET.

If only this was last week, there was some information I could have used for my INF506 assignment. Most of it I had found by myself but some would have been useful.

But then again, isn't that always the way? You always seem to find more information on a topic after you have handed in an assignment.

Mothers Day 2011 and assignments.

Well yet another Mother's Day sees me completing an assignment for Uni.I won't know myself next year when I don't have any assignments to complete.

It was lovely to be given breakfast in bed by my middle child this morning. My youngest made an arrangement of flowers from paper folding as well as organizing her dad to buy a huge bunch of flowers and my eldest gave me a box of chocolate ginger which is nearly all gone thanks to the assignment. My middle child also gave me a pair of new slippers. Has anyone noticed that you can only buy slippers near Mothers Day?

This years assignment was for INF506 and was a report about a social networking project that I completed.

My project was to create a blog at school that would keep students and staff informed about the happenings of the library.

As I put the finishing touches to the assignment today I am pleased to say that I have now learnt how to do screen shots thanks to my 16 year old son.

This subject has been a really steep learning curve that I haven't found easy yet I feel a huge sense of accomplishment after I reach each milestone along the way.

Anyway I have now handed in the assignment so that I don't keep tweaking it and second guessing myself. I feel proud of my efforts and despite all of the effort and tears along the way it has been worth it and hopefully the marker will think so too.

I can now move onto the next assessment task that I need to do.

social networking project report finished........well sort of.

After spending 2 weeks trying to get enough words for this report I now find myself with way too many. I now have to go back through it and work out how I can say things more succinctly.

I am also going through the project report requirements to ensure that I have included absolutely everything that is required.

The next thing I have to do is learn how to do a screen shot as I need to put some parts of my school blog into the appendix and apparently that is the best way to do it.

I have also emailed my principal to ask her if I can make the blog public for the time that it takes to get marked as currently it is only open to the school. I am still waiting on a reply to that. Not sure what I will do if she says no. Maybe I should have thought more carefully about that before setting it up.

Oh well still plenty to do even though I feel like all of the hard work is done.

Better go my nurse will be here in a minute to give me my infusion. Wish there was a cure for Rheumatoid arthritis, I am getting sick of having to timetable infusions into my busy schedule.

Building your Personal Learning Network

While looking for information for my INF506 project report I discovered this fabulous blog that goes into some detail about blogging with primary school students which is what I need right now.

In my usual habit of procrastination I read some other posts and found this fabulous one about building a personal learning network  It is extremely informative and such a no brainer really.
Read it for yourself, but one of the things it said was that the look of a personal learning network has changed from:

• your colleagues in the building you work in
• a cherished personal mentor
• professional development opportunities offered sporadically throughout the year
• conferences
• college credit classes taken for re-certification

to:

• Blogs
• RSS Readers
• Twitter
• Nings
• Skype
• Podcasts
• Wikis

 How true that is.

Oh well off to do some more on my assignment so that I can put my feet up this afternoon and watch all of the fantastic television coverage of THE Royal wedding.

Small step for everyone else, a huge step for me.

Well I have just made a voki for the sidebar of my blog.

It was relatively simple to make, even for me!!!

After reading about the voki on another students post in our facebook group for INF506 I thought I would give it a go.

As they say on the biggest loser....."I am really proud of myself!!!"

E-Learning handbook for teachers.

Reading a Jess's blog who is a fellow students I discovered this fabulous resource.
It's E-learning for teachers It is really worth remembering as it is fabulous for the electronic dummy like me.

school library blogging

Wow it's the second week of the school holidays and the students from my school are still discovering the library blog. I have been checking the comments every couple of days and there are always a few comments to moderate.

On the whole most of the kids have been really sensible with their comments. I have deleted a few as they were a bit inappropriate to put on a school blog but overall I have been really happy with the response.

I initially thought that the project would come to a halt during the holidays, but I am  happy to see that the students are still continuing their interaction and responses to each other through this social medium.